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ERIC Number: ED087668
Record Type: RIE
Publication Date: 1971-May
Pages: 26
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The Computer-Aided International Relations Teaching (CAIR) Package.
Taylor, Charles; Tanter, Raymond
As presented in this report the basic purpose of CAIR (Computer-Aided International Relations Teaching) is to introduce university students and policy analysts in government agencies to substantive data analysis in the field of international studies. The student will be exposed to quantitative political science, learn the role and limitations of its tools, and gain confidence in using them. The policy analyst will practice the developing and evaluating of his ideas empirically. The instructional package reveals the inter-relationships between research design, data, statistical analysis, and computer usage. It has three phases: an elementary introduction to quantitative international affairs, a set of exercises in interactive computer processing, and a survey of methods and data being used by scholars in international affairs. The second and third phases involve collections of modules, each presenting a particular data set, methodology, or theoretical package. Readings accompany the phases; instructional material is geared to both computer and noncomputer exercises. This report describing CAIR also includes examples of its use as well as an appendix. containing a data set on National Attributes and Conflict Behavior. (JH)
National Technical Information Service, Springfield, Virginia 22151 (AD-762-809, MF $1.45; HC $3.50)
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Authoring Institution: Michigan Univ., Ann Arbor. International Data Archive and Analysis Center.
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